From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Allen S. Rout" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Copyright/Distribution questions (Emacs/Orgmode) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:21:47 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ober717z.fsf@gmail.com> <87mwu9iwcp.fsf@gmail.com> <87mwu9fiu0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87d2v4f5bb.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1363202687 1946 80.91.229.3 (13 Mar 2013 19:24:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:24:47 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 13 20:25:13 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UFrIW-00072d-5Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:25:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39918 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFrI9-0000q7-ND for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:24:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56348) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFrI6-0000mH-0N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:24:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFrI3-0001VA-FF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:24:45 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:49153) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFrI3-0001Qa-6m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:24:43 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UFrIN-0006vQ-MZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:25:03 +0100 Original-Received: from n128-227-99-227.xlate.ufl.edu ([128.227.99.227]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:25:03 +0100 Original-Received: from asr by n128-227-99-227.xlate.ufl.edu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:25:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: n128-227-99-227.xlate.ufl.edu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130221 Thunderbird/17.0.3 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:157824 Archived-At: On 03/13/2013 02:32 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: > Our normal future assignment contract covers all changes to Emacs. > Whether it is considered a "contribution" or a "fork" is not a > criterion. It might be appropriate to articulate the procedure by which someone could bring force to a change of opinion about their future work. It seems wrong to claim that this assignment relationship is irrevocable, that it lays claim without limitation to all related work in the person's lifetime. I had interpreted the "thirty days' prior written notice" clause as the clause under which the assignment could be revoked, thus marking an end to the "Work". On further reading, this doesn't seem to be the case. - Allen S. Rout